self renewal

you don’t need to understand yourself fully. you can’t. you are an organism of complexity beyond your own comprehension all you need to do is notice what you notice, meet it with love & warmth, and allow yourself space to bloom

Life is fierce and difficult. There is no life we can live without being subject to grief, loss and heartbreak. Half of every conversation is mediated through disappearance. Thus, there is every reason to want to retreat from life, to carry torches that illuminate only our own view, to make enemies of life and of others, to hate what we cannot unde

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The more defensive you are about a belief you have, the more likely that that belief is standing in the way of your freedom.

“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – never lie to yourself.”

—Paulo Coelho

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes”

-Wilde

It's strange how much humility it takes to stop hating yourself. 'I am the cause of every problem in my life' is a grandiose belief just like any other. The fall from (dis)grace hits every bit as hard.

The number-one-by-a-mile way that people avoid living their values is by going out into the world and telling everyone else how important those values are and how everyone needs to be living them.